Sound Off! (Nov. 15)

I am so glad you all got a picture of that fabulous rainbow and put it in the paper today. It was so gorgeous.

I think the Sun-News used bad judgment in using the front page to let us know about Chuck Franco getting a job. Who cares about him?

Please, Dr. Pacheco, do something about Boston and Walker. This is the worst winning combination in New Mexico's history.

Maybe we can't fire the football coach at the university. He just signed a four-year contract, but we should fire the people that signed him to a four year contract.

Don't blame the Aggie losses on the players. They have been out-coached in every game. They are not prepared.

This is directed to the person who states in SoundOff! that she or he cannot believe how Mark D'Antonio won with dirty politics. Did you hear Amy calling him a slimy fish? And the literature that she sent out? Where have you been?

Once again the river is a dry as a bone. I don't know how the native wildlife survive. You have beaver, badger, coyote, javelin, deer, what do they drink? While the farmers suck up the water for their own profits, the native wildlife is trashed at their expense.

Walter Rubel proves the adage, yes cut taxes and federal spending, just not in our backyard. It is time that New Mexico stopped depending on the federal government instead of paying their own way. We have had too much of this over the years.

When Republicans claim Obama won the election with people who want free things, I ask what things? The poverty level for a family of four is $23,000 and they only qualify for $300 in food stamps.

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Are the other "things" Social Security and Medicare that people already paid for?

President Obama campaigned on raising taxes by 4 percent to 39 percent, the rate during the Clinton era on the rich, and was resoundingly elected. Polls show that 70 percent of Americans want taxes raised on the rich. Republicans need to actually represent the majority of Americans for a change.

President Obama had the highest popular vote for both his elections than any president since Democrat Franklin Roosevelt. To me, that is a definite mandate.

Republicans do not get it. Hispanics voted against their policies of cruelty to immigrants with no recognition of a compromise and path to citizenship, which Republicans consistently campaigned and voted against. It is patronizing to just be courted by Republicans.

How do condescending Republicans claim that Obama supporters do not want jobs or financial independence? They make assumptions based on their bigotry against poor people with absolutely no understanding or even real concern.

How sweet it is. I just love being reminded by the Republicans that we Democrats won the election.

This election was the most progressive election since President Roosevelt's New Deal, with more women, gays and minorities elected, legalizing gay marriages in several states and marijuana use legalized in two states. This country is moving forward to more resembling the rest of the free world.

President Obama has 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206 with Florida going for the president. He has a definite mandate since he also won over 3 million of the popular votes. He can now implement his policy of more taxes on the wealthiest.

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